Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Ioyfvll newes out of the new-found worlde : Wherein are declared, the rare and singuler vertues of diuers herbs, trees, plantes, oyles & stones, with their applications, as well to the vse of phisicke, as of chirurgery ... Also the portrature of the said hearbs, verie aptly described / Englished by John Frampton, marchant. Newly cor. ... Wherevnto are added three other books treating of the bezaar stone, the herb escuerconera, the properties of iron and steele in medicine, and the benefit of snow.

Accession number
PML 7832
Creator
Monardes, Nicolás, ca. 1512-1588.
Published
London : Printed by E. Allde, by the assigne of B. Norton, 1596.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Gothic type.
Title within ornamental border. Initials.
Leaves 1-[110] with running-title "The first[-thyrde] part of the thinges that are brought from the West Indias" contain a translation of Monârdes' "Primera y segvnda y tercera partes de la historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales que siruen en medicina. Sevilla, A. Escriuano, 1574" (Seuilla, F. Diza, 1580).
Nos. 164-170 omitted in numbering leaves.
Lacks the first leaf (before titple page) signed A.
Description
3 preliminary leaves, 187 (i.e. 180) numbered leaves : illustrations ; 18 cm
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased from D. Appleton, purchase and binding inscriptions preserved from previous binding; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Modern linen cloth over paper boards; previously bound in red morocco by William Pratt.
Classification
Department